War, Government and Aristocracy in the British Isles, c.1150-1500: Essays in Honour of Michael Prestwich

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Crown-magnate relations, the Anglo-Scottish, Anglo-French and Anglo-Irish wars, national and local finance and administration and the nature of late medieval kingship are among the principal themes explored in this volume, along with aristocratic consumption, historical writing, chivalric culture and a review of recent work on crusading history. All newly commissioned from distinguished scholars, they shed new light on late medieval British political, military and governmental history.

Contents:

Did Henry II Have a policy towards the Earls? / Nicholas Vincent --
Career of Godfrey of Crowcombe: household Knight of King John and Steward of King Henry III / David Carpenter --
Under-sheriffs, the state and local society c.1300-1340: a preliminary survey / M.L. Holford --
Revisiting Norham, May-June 1291 / Archie Duncan --
Treason, Feud and the growth of state violence: Edward I and the 'War of the Earl of Carrick', 1306-7 / Matthew Strickland --
Commendatio Lamentabilis for Edward I and Plantagenet Kingship / Bjorn Weiler --
Historians, aristocrats and plantagenet Ireland, 1200-1360 / Robin Frame --
War and peace: a knight's tale: The ethics of war in Sir Thomas Gray's Scalacronica / Andy King --
King's secrets: Richard de Bury and the Monarchy of Edward III / W. Mark Ormrod --
Budgeting at the Medieval exchequer / G.L. Harriss --
Recent scholarship on crusading and medieval warfare, 1095-1291: convergence and divergence / Norman Housley --
Military ordinances of Henry V: texts and contexts / Anne Curry --
Chivalry and english Kingship in the later middle ages / Maurice Keen --
Cloth of gold and gold thread: luxury imports to England in the fourteenth century / Wendy Childs.